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// Copyright 2013 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

#include "chrome/browser/sync_file_system/drive_backend/list_changes_task.h"

#include <stddef.h>
#include <string>
#include <utility>

#include "base/bind.h"
#include "base/files/scoped_temp_dir.h"
#include "base/format_macros.h"
#include "base/macros.h"
#include "base/run_loop.h"
#include "base/threading/thread_task_runner_handle.h"
#include "chrome/browser/sync_file_system/drive_backend/drive_backend_constants.h"
#include "chrome/browser/sync_file_system/drive_backend/fake_drive_service_helper.h"
#include "chrome/browser/sync_file_system/drive_backend/metadata_database.h"
#include "chrome/browser/sync_file_system/drive_backend/register_app_task.h"
#include "chrome/browser/sync_file_system/drive_backend/sync_engine_context.h"
#include "chrome/browser/sync_file_system/drive_backend/sync_engine_initializer.h"
#include "chrome/browser/sync_file_system/drive_backend/sync_task_manager.h"
#include "chrome/browser/sync_file_system/sync_file_system_test_util.h"
#include "content/public/test/browser_task_environment.h"
#include "google_apis/drive/drive_api_parser.h"
#include "mojo/public/cpp/bindings/pending_remote.h"
#include "testing/gtest/include/gtest/gtest.h"
#include "third_party/leveldatabase/leveldb_chrome.h"

namespace sync_file_system {
namespace drive_backend {

namespace {

const char kAppID[] = "app_id";
const char kUnregisteredAppID[] = "app_id unregistered";

}  // namespace

class ListChangesTaskTest : public testing::Test {
 public:
  ListChangesTaskTest()
      : task_environment_(content::BrowserTaskEnvironment::IO_MAINLOOP) {}
  ~ListChangesTaskTest() override {}

  void SetUp() override {
    ASSERT_TRUE(database_dir_.CreateUniqueTempDir());
    in_memory_env_ = leveldb_chrome::NewMemEnv("ListChangesTaskTest");

    std::unique_ptr<drive::FakeDriveService> fake_drive_service(
        new drive::FakeDriveService);

    std::unique_ptr<drive::DriveUploaderInterface> drive_uploader(
        new drive::DriveUploader(fake_drive_service.get(),
                                 base::ThreadTaskRunnerHandle::Get(),
                                 mojo::NullRemote()));

    fake_drive_service_helper_.reset(
        new FakeDriveServiceHelper(fake_drive_service.get(),
                                   drive_uploader.get(),
                                   kSyncRootFolderTitle));

    sync_task_manager_.reset(new SyncTaskManager(
        base::WeakPtr<SyncTaskManager::Client>(),
        10 /* maximum_background_task */, base::ThreadTaskRunnerHandle::Get()));
    sync_task_manager_->Initialize(SYNC_STATUS_OK);

    context_.reset(new SyncEngineContext(
        std::move(fake_drive_service), std::move(drive_uploader),
        nullptr /* task_logger */, base::ThreadTaskRunnerHandle::Get(),
        base::ThreadTaskRunnerHandle::Get()));

    SetUpRemoteFolders();

    InitializeMetadataDatabase();
    RegisterApp(kAppID);
  }

  void TearDown() override {
    sync_task_manager_.reset();
    context_.reset();
    base::RunLoop().RunUntilIdle();
  }

 protected:
  SyncStatusCode RunTask(std::unique_ptr<SyncTask> sync_task) {
    SyncStatusCode status = SYNC_STATUS_UNKNOWN;
    sync_task_manager_->ScheduleSyncTask(FROM_HERE, std::move(sync_task),
                                         SyncTaskManager::PRIORITY_MED,
                                         CreateResultReceiver(&status));
    base::RunLoop().RunUntilIdle();
    return status;
  }

  size_t CountDirtyTracker() {
    return context_->GetMetadataDatabase()->CountDirtyTracker();
  }

  FakeDriveServiceHelper* fake_drive_service_helper() {
    return fake_drive_service_helper_.get();
  }

  void SetUpChangesInFolder(const std::string& folder_id) {
    std::string new_file_id;
    ASSERT_EQ(google_apis::HTTP_SUCCESS,
              fake_drive_service_helper()->AddFile(
                  folder_id, "new file", "file contents", &new_file_id));
    std::string same_name_file_id;
    ASSERT_EQ(google_apis::HTTP_SUCCESS,
              fake_drive_service_helper()->AddFile(
                  folder_id, "new file", "file contents",
                  &same_name_file_id));

    std::string new_folder_id;
    ASSERT_EQ(google_apis::HTTP_CREATED,
              fake_drive_service_helper()->AddFolder(
                  folder_id, "new folder", &new_folder_id));

    std::string modified_file_id;
    ASSERT_EQ(google_apis::HTTP_SUCCESS,
              fake_drive_service_helper()->AddFile(
                  folder_id, "modified file", "file content",
                  &modified_file_id));
    ASSERT_EQ(google_apis::HTTP_SUCCESS,
              fake_drive_service_helper()->UpdateFile(
                  modified_file_id, "modified file content"));

    std::string deleted_file_id;
    ASSERT_EQ(google_apis::HTTP_SUCCESS,
              fake_drive_service_helper()->AddFile(
                  folder_id, "trashed file", "file content",
                  &deleted_file_id));
    ASSERT_EQ(google_apis::HTTP_NO_CONTENT,
              fake_drive_service_helper()->DeleteResource(deleted_file_id));
  }

  std::string root_resource_id() {
    return context_->GetDriveService()->GetRootResourceId();
  }

  std::string app_root_folder_id() {
    return app_root_folder_id_;
  }

  std::string unregistered_app_root_folder_id() {
    return unregistered_app_root_folder_id_;
  }

  SyncEngineContext* GetSyncEngineContext() {
    return context_.get();
  }

 private:
  void SetUpRemoteFolders() {
    ASSERT_EQ(google_apis::HTTP_CREATED,
              fake_drive_service_helper_->AddOrphanedFolder(
                  kSyncRootFolderTitle, &sync_root_folder_id_));
    ASSERT_EQ(google_apis::HTTP_CREATED,
              fake_drive_service_helper_->AddFolder(
                  sync_root_folder_id_, kAppID, &app_root_folder_id_));
    ASSERT_EQ(google_apis::HTTP_CREATED,
              fake_drive_service_helper_->AddFolder(
                  sync_root_folder_id_, kUnregisteredAppID,
                  &unregistered_app_root_folder_id_));
  }

  void InitializeMetadataDatabase() {
    SyncStatusCode status = SYNC_STATUS_UNKNOWN;
    SyncEngineInitializer* initializer = new SyncEngineInitializer(
        context_.get(), database_dir_.GetPath(), in_memory_env_.get());

    sync_task_manager_->ScheduleSyncTask(
        FROM_HERE, std::unique_ptr<SyncTask>(initializer),
        SyncTaskManager::PRIORITY_MED,
        base::Bind(&ListChangesTaskTest::DidInitializeMetadataDatabase,
                   base::Unretained(this), initializer, &status));

    base::RunLoop().RunUntilIdle();

    EXPECT_EQ(SYNC_STATUS_OK, status);
  }

  void DidInitializeMetadataDatabase(SyncEngineInitializer* initializer,
                                     SyncStatusCode* status_out,
                                     SyncStatusCode status) {
    context_->SetMetadataDatabase(initializer->PassMetadataDatabase());
    *status_out = status;
  }

  void RegisterApp(const std::string& app_id) {
    EXPECT_EQ(SYNC_STATUS_OK,
              RunTask(std::unique_ptr<SyncTask>(
                  new RegisterAppTask(context_.get(), app_id))));
  }

  std::unique_ptr<leveldb::Env> in_memory_env_;

  std::string sync_root_folder_id_;
  std::string app_root_folder_id_;
  std::string unregistered_app_root_folder_id_;

  content::BrowserTaskEnvironment task_environment_;
  base::ScopedTempDir database_dir_;

  std::unique_ptr<SyncEngineContext> context_;
  std::unique_ptr<FakeDriveServiceHelper> fake_drive_service_helper_;

  std::unique_ptr<SyncTaskManager> sync_task_manager_;

  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(ListChangesTaskTest);
};

TEST_F(ListChangesTaskTest, NoChange) {
  size_t num_dirty_trackers = CountDirtyTracker();

  EXPECT_EQ(SYNC_STATUS_NO_CHANGE_TO_SYNC,
            RunTask(std::unique_ptr<SyncTask>(
                new ListChangesTask(GetSyncEngineContext()))));

  EXPECT_EQ(num_dirty_trackers, CountDirtyTracker());
}

TEST_F(ListChangesTaskTest, UnrelatedChange) {
  size_t num_dirty_trackers = CountDirtyTracker();

  SetUpChangesInFolder(root_resource_id());
  SetUpChangesInFolder(unregistered_app_root_folder_id());

  EXPECT_EQ(SYNC_STATUS_OK, RunTask(std::unique_ptr<SyncTask>(
                                new ListChangesTask(GetSyncEngineContext()))));

  EXPECT_EQ(num_dirty_trackers, CountDirtyTracker());
}

TEST_F(ListChangesTaskTest, UnderTrackedFolder) {
  size_t num_dirty_trackers = CountDirtyTracker();

  SetUpChangesInFolder(app_root_folder_id());

  EXPECT_EQ(SYNC_STATUS_OK, RunTask(std::unique_ptr<SyncTask>(
                                new ListChangesTask(GetSyncEngineContext()))));

  EXPECT_EQ(num_dirty_trackers + 4, CountDirtyTracker());
}

TEST_F(ListChangesTaskTest, TeamDriveChangeInChangeList) {
  size_t num_dirty_trackers = CountDirtyTracker();

  SetUpChangesInFolder(app_root_folder_id());

  // Adding a team drive will return a TeamDriveResource entry when the
  // change list is retrieved.
  fake_drive_service_helper()->AddTeamDrive("team_drive_id", "team_drive_name");

  EXPECT_EQ(SYNC_STATUS_OK, RunTask(std::unique_ptr<SyncTask>(
                                new ListChangesTask(GetSyncEngineContext()))));

  EXPECT_EQ(num_dirty_trackers + 4, CountDirtyTracker());
}

}  // namespace drive_backend
}  // namespace sync_file_system

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You know I'm obsessed when I'm watching a movie for Wentworth Millers' voice alone. No Wentface, only Millervoice because that is reason enough right? WRONG! I don't even think I can devote a whole paragraph to the craptasticness that was Stealth. Wents' voice was the best thing about the movie and for Sci-Fi that is a damn shame. Jamie Foxx being Jamie Foxx? Check. Jessica Biel being butch? Check. Cute guy with the nice eyes from Sweet Home Alabama whose name I can't remember and I'm too lazy to look up being all cute and being a hero and stuff? Check. Explosions? Check. A.I.? Check. It was way too long and the action wasn't even exciting but Wentworths' computer voice was wonderful. He gets an A. The movie gets an F.


Pepper soup is a great meal, it is popular especially in restaurants and bars. It consist of vegetables, chicken, meat or fish. can be eaten alongside with coco yam, plantain, some people make use of rice to enjoy this delicacy, while others have a variety of swallow for this. I will be doing one next weekend. Hope you join me.
People often say that the soup most times act as a medicine to them while some others say its just smoothens their nerves because of the application of the Pepper inside it.
Clean your yam or plantains and add it inside put all the spices except salt if it is plantains.
And leave it for twenty minutes and stir and remove the pot from the fire.


Enterprises increasingly want to take advantage of the flexibility and choice of multiple cloud offerings in order to use best cloud services while achieving satisfactory cost reduction benefits. In fact, the International Data Corporation predicted in a futurescape report last year that more than 85% of enterprise IT corporations will invest in and adopt multi-cloud architecture by 2018. With the enterprise hurtling towards digital transformation at breakneck speeds, the adoption of cloud, both public and private, has accelerated. And working across different clouds across various platforms brings a whole lot of challenges in its wake.
This is the first blog of our three blog series on multi-cloud. In this blog, you will get to know about multi cloud and its various architectures for different organizational requirements. In the second blog, We have discussed Strategies to manage Multi cloud environment effectively.
Multi-cloud strategy is the concomitant use of two or more cloud services such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and more.
This means you can use Google cloud to serve your US users and Microsoft Azure for your customers in Europe.
Or you might use Azure SQL for your databases and Cognito for user management while using AWS EC2 instances and Load Balancing, all for a single application.
In addition, you can run your app primarily on Digital Ocean but is completely replicated and backed up on AWS.
You can run different app on different clouds. You can have your development and test environments on one cloud, and your production environment on another.
But to take advantage of multi cloud benefits, it is very important to manage and monitor your cloud deployment and costs.
Users are not located near any data center, or widely distributed geographically.
Facing regulations limit in particular countries for storing data, e.g., EU.
Environment where public clouds are used with on-premises resources.
Cloud-based application is not resilient which can affect disaster recovery when loss of a single data center.
In order to build highly scalable and reliable applications, a multi-cloud architecture is appropriate. Our objective is to provide architectural guidance for migrating cloud-based systems that run on multiple independent clouds. Let's take a look at some of the prominent multi cloud architectures and migration strategy.
In this architecture application component is hosted on-premise and after migration, it can use different cloud services of other cloud platforms to improve performance.
Here application component C1 is been hosted on-premise but after adopting multi-cloud, it uses AWS storage service AWS S3 and for compute it uses Azure virtual machines.
Benefits: Improves availability as application re-hosting in multiple cloud platforms and avoid vendor lock-in.
In this architecture application component is re-hosted on cloud platform and use other cloud services of multiple cloud platform to enhance capabilities.
Here application component C1 is re-hosted on AWS platform after migration and open to use environmental services of Azure. It is using AWS S3 for storage and has option available for compute either AWS or Azure.
To provide better QoS, An on-premise application is re-architected for deployment on multiple cloud platforms. Here application needs to re-architected as fine-grained components so that deployment of high-usage components can be optimized independently. Here deployment of high-usage components is optimized independently of low-usage ones. The parallel design enables better throughtput to multi cloud platforms.
Here AC1 and AC2 are two application components hosted on-premise before migration . As both the components are independent integrity units, AC1 is deployed on AWS using AWS S3. On the other hand, AC2 is deployed on Azure and it can use any Azure's cloud service as per requirements.
Benefits: Optimal scalability/performance, range of multi-cloud deployment options, agility to respond to business/IT change.
Challenges: On-premise application is modernized in isolation. Modernization is performed primarily for technical reasons. Component architecture which is only determined bottom-up may need to be re-evaluated because of multi-cloud environment.
A re-architected application is deployed partially on multiple cloud environments and enables the application to continue to function using secondary deployment when there is a failure with the primary platform.
Here AC1 and AC2 are two application components hosted on-premise before migration. As both the components are independent integrity units, AC1 is remains on-premise while two AC2 are deployed on AWS and Azure for disaster recovery. AC1 and two AC2 components are connected via EBS or Service bus.
Benefits: As unhealthy services become healthy again, traffic can be delivered, returning system responsiveness to maximum.
Challenges: This architecture does not guarantee seamless failover. There will be downtime.
A re-architected application is deployed partially on multiple cloud environments. This enables the application to continue to function using secondary deployment when there is a failure with the primary platform using cloud brokerage services.
In this architecture AC1 has been deployed on-premise and two re-architected AC2 are deployed on two cloud platforms AWS and Azure. Here Cloud broker services integrates all three components and provides flexibility to choose services from multiple providers (Cloud platforms AWS and Azure).
What is a Cloud Broker and Cloud Services Brokerage?
A cloud broker is an individual or business that consults and facilitates the selection of cloud computing solutions as an intermediary on behalf of an organization.
Gartner defines the Cloud Service Broker function as adding value to cloud services by providing a marketplace for enterprise-approved services, integrating cloud services with on-premise applications and with each other, and ensuring corporate data is secure in the cloud.
A cloud broker combines and integrates multiple services into one or more new services. The broker ensures the security of data and provides data integration in transition between the cloud customer and multiple cloud providers.
Cloud interoperability – Provides Integration between various cloud offerings.
Cloud portability – You can move application(s) between different cloud vendors.
Reducing dependency on one cloud provider.
Increase SLAs by leveraging multiple cloud providers.
Cost savings – Most IaaS clouds offer 10% – 40% discounts to those who have purchased a large number of instances. For example, Amazon provides 20% or even higher discounts for EC2 instances. Due to the sheer volume of the aggregated demand, the cloud broker can easily qualify for such discounts, which further reduces the cost of serving all the users.
Pay for as per requirement: Cloud brokers provide a selected assortment of cloud services required by the consumer.
Different on-premise applications A1/A2, AC1 are re-architected as a portfolio and deployed on cloud environment.
Benefits: It provides consistent information and rules in shared components. Reduced operation and maintenance costs for shared components is another benefit.
Challenges: Lack of business commitment to shared capabilities.
On the first pass, both may appear same and these terms used interchangeably by some, but they are not the same. Here we've explained the differences, which are subtle but very distinct, between the two.
Hybrid cloud is a mix of public and private cloud that connects the public cloud such as AWS to your on-premise system and is orchestrated to perform together for a single task. In this scenario, you're optimizing your workload so it runs in the right environment at the right time. Using Hybrid cloud, organizations can access highly elastic compute resources from the chosen provider, perhaps for managing and storing additional workloads at peak times and for general day to applications. But all the mission-critical stuff remains on-premise infrastructure for multiple reasons like privacy regulations and security.
The way in which public cloud services and private cloud operations are utilized is dependent on organizational needs and priorities. The extent to which public cloud services are utilized can be as minimal as an offsite backup, or as extensive as being the primary component of data storage and processing. The process of finding an appropriate balance between public and private should take into consideration your organization's IT budget, the strength of internet infrastructure in the areas in which your organization operates, and needs for regulatory compliance.
For certain use cases, organizations require a combination of a private and public cloud to leverage unique benefits offered by them. In such circumstances, a hybrid cloud may prove to be the better choice.
Organizations can leverage cloudbusting, in which application workloads burst into the public cloud for additional compute resources after they reach to a threshold level in private cloud.
It makes sense for organizations to use public cloud resources for a new, untested application before embarking on the capital expenditure associated with launching in a private cloud. Once an organization defines a steady-state workload pipeline to run an application, it may choose to bring the application to on-premise systems.
Cloud customers can, however, use hybrid clouds to promote high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). For example, in a Disaster recovery scenario, an organization can keep its recovery environment in a public cloud and production environment in a private cloud, ready to spin up as necessary. The organization replicates data across to the public cloud, but all other resources remain non-operational until needed.
Hybrid cloud architecture provides maximum agility for meeting the needs of the organizations by providing infrastructure where IT operations can be automated to improve the user experience.
Multi cloud represents more than 1 cloud deployment of the same type and it can be public or private cloud, sourced from different cloud providers. Business adopt Multi-cloud to mix and match a range of public and private clouds to use best of breed applications and services.
These cloud approaches are not mutually exclusive: You can have both, simultaneously. In fact, Most organizations seek to improve security and performance through an expanded portfolio of environments.
Multi cloud offers IT teams increases flexibility and control over workloads and data.
As multi cloud offers flexible cloud environment, organizations can meet specific workload or application requirements- both technically and commercially by adopting it. It is obvious that not every team, department, business functions or workload require similar performance, security, privacy or geographic reach for their cloud. Being able to use multiple cloud providers that meet their various application and data needs is critical as cloud computing has become more mature and mainstream.
Organizations see geographic advantages to using multiple providers, to address app latency problems, for example. Also, some companies may start using specific cloud providers for short time to achieve short-term goals and then stop using it.
You may be running a workload that requires large pools of storage and networking resources on a private cloud. At the same time, you may have another workload running on Amazon's service and yet another on Microsoft's. Each workload is running on the ideal cloud, but now you have multiple clouds to manage.
Multi-cloud environments come with their challenges—complexity, resources, expertise, cost, and management issues, to name a few—and management seems to be the common denominator. Here are 5 things to keep in mind when building an effective multi cloud environment.
Analyze your entire network, and then identify which service of particular cloud provider is the best for your specific requirement. Get a clear picture of all the cloud provider's role in your overall system-management strategy to avoid system complexity and poor utilization of resources.
Automate low-level monitoring and maintenance tasks. Having multiple cloud providers increases low-level maintenance and monitoring tasks. To reduce the amount of human oversight, you can use tools like BetterClouds for performance monitoring.
Focus on automating policy across cloud environments. The best way to use multiple cloud services is to have a single standard for policies that are applied automatically to each cloud environment. The policies cover such areas as data storage, workloads, traffic flows, virtual servers, compliance/regulation, security and reporting. If you have a single configuration across different infrastructures it becomes easier to apply changes and updates because the changes and updates propagate seamlessly from environment to environment.
Use integrated data center management system designed for virtual environments. It helps building system in which your server, network, storage, operations, security, and applications teams work according to common goals.
Identify the apps in your organization that are best suited for multi cloud environment. Traditional apps are inflexible, run as Virtual Machines, and use a scale-up architecture. Generally these type of applications are difficult to develop, deploy and maintain. On the other hand, cloud-native apps are more flexible and service-oriented, comprised of collections of containers and services, based on a scale-out architecture. Also, cloud native applications are easy to automate, move, and scale.
When an organization uses one cloud platform, all If all the organizational resources use one cloud platform, a cyber attack can take down all the operations for a long time leaving end users inaccessible until it resolves. When you use multi-cloud architecture, it makes your company's services resilient against these types cyber attacks because there are other clouds available to take the workloads when one cloud goes down.
The multi-cloud platform allows organizations to select the best services from every cloud platform, create custom infrastructure specific to their organizational goals. Rather than managing business processes to fit a specific provider's setup and execution, businesses can explore different providers to find the best match for each part of business operations.
There are different data types generated in the organization. For example, some database requires cold storage which is not accessed regularly while hot data accessed 10 times a day and must be stored in frequently-accessed storage,e.g., AWS S3 standard storage. Rather than lump all your data into one cloud, you can diversify to take advantage of the right service for the right function.
Before adopting the Multicloud strategy, you should do a performance analysis of your workloads that are either on-premises or already in the cloud and comparing that to what's available in each cloud. As a result, you can identify the options that will meet your workload performance requirements at the cheapest cost. For example, You can save money by running spot instances for workloads designed to be fault tolerant, while running legacy workloads on reserved instances.
When application users are distributed worldwide and data transfer is done from single data center, lots of users will experience slow response time. There will delays when data traffic has to travel across several nodes before reaching end-users. This delay, called latency is inherent in cloud services delivered from servers at distant locations.
In a multi cloud environment, cloud architects can deploy data centers to multiple regions according to user locations. The datacenter closest to end-users can serve the requested data with minimum server hops. This capability is especially useful for global organizations that need to serve data across geographically disparate locations while maintaining a unified end-user experience.
Multi-Cloud architecture provides an environment where businesses can build secure and powerful cloud environments outside the traditional infrastructure. Maximizing the impact of multi-cloud, however, means tackling the challenges of app sprawl, unique portals, compliance, migration and security head-on. The main goal multi cloud strategy is to use as many clouds as per requirements to address the limitations of using one cloud from a single provider. Though toggling between cloud providers to perform tasks can be complicated, especially right out of the gate, cloud service providers are working to make toggling between clouds increasingly efficient. The more efficient it becomes, the more multi-cloud computing will evolve.
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For nearly three decades prominent climate scientists have been warning policymakers that salt and heat driven circulation of the world ocean system (called thermohaline — thermo for heat and haline for salt) could be disrupted by cold water outflows from Greenland. The North Atlantic between Newfoundland and Ireland is the only region of the world that has defied global warming and cooled. Last winter [this region] was the coldest on record, while globally it was the hottest on record. The evidence is mounting that the long-feared circulation decline is already well underway.
Without the large-scale sinking of salty water in the North Atlantic the influx of warm water from the tropics to replace it would not occur, effectively switching off the thermohaline circulation. Past changes in have occurred during periods of relatively rapid climate change, such as transitions in and out of glaciations. Similarly, the rapid warming we are currently experiencing could trigger an abrupt shutdown and subsequent regional cooling.
The Western pubic doesn't know it, but Washington and its EU allies are convincing Russia that they are preparing to attack. If you were Russian, wouldn't you remember the Cuban Missile Crisis?
It's only by chance that the world has avoided a nuclear war — sometimes by nothing more than dumb luck — and, rather than enhancing our security, nukes "now endanger it." What's made today's world more dangerous, is a series of actions by the last three US administrations.
* The decision by President Clinton to abrogate a 1990 agreement with the Soviet Union not to push NATO further east after the reunification of Germany or to recruit former members of the defunct Warsaw Pact.
* The 1999 US-NATO intervention in the Yugoslav civil war and the forcible dismemberment of Serbia.
* Bush's unilateral withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the decision by Obama to deploy anti-missile systems in Romania and Poland, as well as Japan and South Korea.
* The current decision to spend $1 trillion upgrading US nuclear weapons, including building bombs with smaller yields that blurs the line between conventional and nuclear weapons.
The power differential between the US and Russia is so great that the Russians have abandoned their pledge to never be the first to use nuclear weapons.
The pattern of democratic life is to drift into impending disaster and then to stumble out of it. Undemocratic practices creep up on us unawares, until the routine practices of democracy – a free press, a few unbiddable politicians – expose them. When that happens, democracies do not get a grip; they simply make the minimum of necessary adjustments until they drift into the next disaster. What is hard for any democracy is to exert the constant, vigilant pressure needed to rein in the forces that produce the crises. It is so much easier to wait for the crisis to reveal itself before trying to do something about it.
Respected publications have commented on the convergence between Trump's statements and geopolitical positions that Russia has long sought, with implications should Trump become president.
The Israeli military the West Bank, destroyed 168 Palestinian homes between January 1 and June 30, 2016, displacing 740 people, including 348 children.
Including schools, charities, unions and medical centres, and extends the time a person can be detained to 30 days. Turkey has suspended 37,500 civil servants and police officers in the wake of the coup, including many from the education ministry, and also revoked the licenses of 21,000 teachers, and closed more than 600 schools.
Three news agencies, 16 television stations, 23 radio stations, 45 newspapers, 15 magazines and 29 publishers were shut down. Also, discharged 149 generals — nearly half the armed forces' entire staff. Almost 16,000 people have been detained.
Why have teachers and academics been targeted?
The aim is to weed out all Gülen schools and those associated with them from all aspects of the state. Such a purge is deeply troubling, especially the sacking of the university deans.
As more evidence surfaces daily it seems the CIA was playing a huge role behind the July 15 coup attempt.
Is this why Russia has just become Turkey's best friend?
A summary of new batteries and new energy storage systems that have been announced in Australia.
The drying Amazon rainforest is squeezing substantial amounts of hothouse gasses into the atmosphere. Monitors indicate pools of 600 to 800 ppm CO2 in 100- to 200-mile-wide spikes that signal the coming Amazon rainforest wildfires this summer predicted by NASA.
In the Amazon, the Congo, Siberia and Alaska outpouring methane is inflaming the wildfires.
This year to April the Northern Hemisphere oceans were 0.85°C warmer than the 20th century average, while temperatures as high as 28.9°C were recorded over the Mackenzie River close to the Arctic Ocean on June 13.
They targeted a group of random individuals, prolonged the attack to maximize media exposure, and engaged in an attack that provided little hope of escape. However, these developments are only the latest evolution of a long-existing effort to reverse the secular democratic principles on which Bangladesh was founded.
The U.S. political system is also a global arms distribution system. During Obama's first six years in office, Washington entered into agreements to sell more than $190 billion in weaponry worldwide — more than any US administration since World War II. Obama has loosened restrictions on arms exports, making it possible to send abroad a whole new range of weapons and weapons components with far less scrutiny than was previously required.
Is a Civil War Looming in Israel?
They are the instruments to buy corrupt government officials with unaccounted loans or credits that increase national debt and increase dependence on the western predatory corporate and finance system. Its neocolonialism at its best – nothing to do with 'development of poor countries'. To the contrary – its debt-dependence for easy exploitation.
With the coal boom on the wane, mining companies want to escape the cost of rehabilitating their sites. The Queensland Resources Council has forecast that in central Queensland there will be 120,000 hectares disturbed from mining by 2020. Yet only about 560 hectares has been certified by the environment department as successful progressive rehabilitation.
over Siberia, Africa and the Amazon correlate with wildfires and extreme drought conditions associated with climate change. Add in C02 spikes over the same region and it begins to look like a self-amplifying feedback.
From Haiti to Syria, Hillary's long record suggests she's looking forward to being a war president on day one.
The South China Sea dispute has put a damper on China's Maritime Silk Road. Agreements with Philippines are on hold. Trade with Southeast Asia has declined, and Japan has replaced China as the leading source of infrastructure development funds in the ASEAN countries.
Chart of the connections between money sources and their transfer by the millions into the coffers of the candidates that support the authoritarian policies of the billionaire Koch brothers.


Condition Report; Repaired crack on top above sound hole. At one time in its past the back was re glued, also as can be seen in the photos there a several lines in the finish that look like cracks but they are tight and do not move so they may just be cracking in the finish.
Camp Uke made by Lyon & Healy, this particular model with the gold leaf bellow the bridge is the top of the line this is also a very early version with the PAT.APL'D FOR stamp on both the bridge and back of the headstock.


Mini Spot Cooler - Frigid-X™ Mini Spot Cooler is a low cost and maintenance free system which utilizes a vortex tube to produce cold air at one end. It is quiet and compact.
Mini Spot Cooler - Frigid-X™ Mini Spot Cooler is designed for small parts and produces a stream of 15 to 20 degree F (minus 9.5 to 7 degree C) of cold air to prevent heat buildup depending on inlet air temperature. It can improve tolerances in maching of small critical parts and increase production rates.
Cold air is directed using the flexible tubing. A magnetic base is standard for portability and easy mounting of the Frigid-X™ Mini Spot Cooler.
The Mini Spot Cooler utilizes a vortex tube to create one hot stream and one cold stream. The cold air produced at the cold end is directed to the surface to be cooled using a flexible hose.
Units are available with either a single point hose kit for small surface area mini spot cooler or a dual point hose kit when heat is generated over a larger surface area.
Mini spot cooler produces a wide range of airflow and temperature by adjusting the knob at the hot end and changing the various generators supplied.
Mini spot cooler has a 25 SCFM (708 SLPM) generator installed that will produce up to 1,800 Btu/hr. of cooling. If less is required, the 15 SCFM (425 SLPM) generator can deliver 1,100 Btu/hr.


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World War I, also called First World War or Great War, an international conflict that in 1914–18 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the United States, the Middle East, and other regions. The war pitted the Central Powers—mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey—against the Allies—mainly France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, from 1917, the United States. It ended with the defeat of the Central Powers. The war was virtually unprecedented in the slaughter, carnage, and destruction it caused.
From July 28, 1914 To November 11, 1918
Participating countries:
Bulgaria.
Ottoman Empire.
Russia.
_CAUSES:
1) The assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand by South Slav nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914.
2) A naval arms race between Great Britain and the German Empire made conflict on the high seas almost inevitable.
3) German success in the Franco-German War fostered a belief in the supremacy of Prussian militarism.
4) Germany's annexation of Alsace-Lorraine after the Franco-German War aroused a deep longing for revenge in the French people.
5) The Balkan Wars virtually eradicated the Ottoman presence in Europe, but led to violent strife among the victors.
_Outcomes.
_As many as 8.5 million soldiers and 13 million civilians died as a result of the war.
_Failure to deliver mandated reparations leads to the armed occupation of the Ruhr River valley region by French and Belgian troops.
_German militarists perpetuate the myth that the German Army was undefeated in battle, undermining faith in the civilian government of the Weimar Republic.
_Imperial dynasties in Austria-Hungary, Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and Russia collapsed.
_Mass movement of troops and refugees helped spread the Spanish flu, a devastating influenza pandemic that claimed as many as 50 million lives in 1918-19.
_Ottoman territories in the Middle East are divvied up among the victorious Allied powers at the Conference of San Remo.
_The League of Nations is established, but its effectiveness is hampered by the non-participation of the United States.
_KEY PEOPLE:
_Kemal Atatürk.
_Winston Churchill.
_Georges Clemenceau.
_Franz Joseph.
_Herbert Hoover.
_David Lloyd George.
_Nicholas II.
_George Patton.
_William II.
_Woodrow Wilson.
World War I was one of the great watersheds of 20th-century geopolitical history. It led to the fall of four great imperial dynasties (in Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey), resulted in the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, and, in its destabilization of European society, laid the groundwork for World War II.
John Graham Royde-Smith Dennis E. Showalter "World War I"، www.britannica.com
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Wooden shingles have a long tradition as a roofing material in Austria. There are several types of shingles, and several patterns of shingling. One type is called the "Schieferschindel", lets learn how to make them.


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Hailed by Diane Windler as "a conductor with authority on the podium," Ronnie Sanders made his Carnegie Hall conducting debut in a critically acclaimed performance with the New England Philharmonic Orchestra in 2005.
He earned a Grammy Signature Award for excellence in music education in 2010 and 2016.
Sanders studied at the Juilliard School in New York city and holds a master's degree in conducting from the University of Houston and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University. Sanders served as a state commissioner for the Texas Commission on the Arts from 2011 - 2018.
Sanders was privileged to have been personally coached by Maestro Milton Katims, conductor of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra from 1954 - 1976. Katims performed with and was a conducting protégé of Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini. Not only is Sanders an established orchestral conductor, he has conducted opera, ballet, concerti, choral works and numerous musicals.
His vision for the South Texas Symphonic Orchestra is to serve our local community of musicians who are highly skilled and have a passion to perform at the highest artistic levels.
The South Texas Symphonic Orchestra is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.
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Every book has a beginning from the imagination of an author, but this one is different. Thomas was real and I want to applaud Debra for giving him a beautiful almost mystical love story.
I won't go into the story because this is one of those gems that needs to be discovered through every word the author has written. It's stunning and oh the feels it gave me, at times I felt like my heart would burst out my chest I was an emotional wreck at some points.
Fallon and Thomas are two characters that will stay with me for a long time, if you're a romantic like me you will love this book.
***Debra Anastasia has created a website for Thomas McHugh - the veteran the book is in honor of.
There is a giveaway for signed paperback of For All the Evers and Saving Poughkeepsie, signed hand-crafter holiday ornaments, Booty Camp Dating Service ring, Poughkeepsie lip balm and cardboard keychain, and XL One More Chapter t-shirt.


When did you begin blogging. What were your reasons?
It depends what you mean by 'blog'. I have shared my thoughts via the Web since around mid-1993 (around the time the Cello and Mosaic browsers were released) but until the mid-late 90s only on static web pages. I did it for the same complex of reasons that underpin most sharing I do with the world. I want to make a difference, gain social capital, give something back rather than simply consuming, archive my thoughts, share ideas on an open stage, it reminds me I am part of a bigger community, establishes a social identity (of a sort) etc. My first blog of that name was probably around 2000 – by that time I was using blogs in teaching as they are a great way to create an idea-centric dialogue, share easily, connect disconnected learners and are wonderfully motivating (until the spammers hit) so it seemed churlish not to do the same as my students. Before that I had created and used my own collaborative bookmark system (CoFIND) that was very blog-like in many ways, including comments, RSS feeds, tags etc, and that continued to feed into my blog until a couple of years ago. Part of the motivation for doing that was to use the system to see how it behaved and performed, and to encourage others to use it. I also really like to play with toys and technologies. It's a curiosity thing.
Very up and down indeed at multiple timescales. My blogspot (formerly blogger) blog has 9 whole posts starting from 2001, an average of one a year. I would post to my various CoFIND systems many times a week in the early 2000s, and have had flurries of activity, latterly on this site and formerly on my old Elgg site at the University of Brighton since around 2006. I still have phases of rabid activity, punctuated by pauses of a month or more. Sometimes the ideas flow and I have the time and/or motivation, sometimes they don't and/or I don't. The vast majority of my blogging activities relate to my research and/or teaching, and they nearly always have.
How has blogging helped you with learning?
Any writing that involves creating, analysing, constructing ideas and knowledge offloads the cognitive process and extends one's capability to think: we don't have to hold it all in our heads at the same time and can connect and organise many more ideas than we could without it. I often don't know what I think until I write it and writing it encourages further thoughts. In that sense, because a blog helps to motivate the writing process without the same strictures of an academic conference or journal paper, it definitely helps me to learn on an ongoing basis.
Blogs are a long way from being unconstrained in form and content – the simple fact that they are mostly public ensures that – but they offer liberties that more traditional academic forms exclude. They let me think and behave more like a journalist, which is fun as I can explore ideas that I might exclude from an academic paper because of justified fears they would be shot down in flames. The fact that it is for public consumption forces me to be a bit more careful about what I write and to reflect more, analyse more, correct more. That's a learning process.
The dialogues that sometimes ensue also help me to co-construct a shifting view of reality with others. Being able to get different perspectives, being encouraged to re-formulate and adapt ideas to explain them better, to argue, to clarify, all helps me to learn. It's a bit like teaching which, as we all know, is the best way to learn.
I also like the ability to easily flick through old ideas, comments, sites I have found that easily get forgotten and link them to new thoughts and ideas: it's a variation on the same theme of cognitive offloading, and of course is an explicitly reflective process that helps both cement ideas and inform metacognitive introspection.
Blogs also give me permission to sit back and think: it's a bit like the value of going to a class or a conference, a large part of which relates to the simple fact that you have explicitly put time aside to think about something and engage with it. If we don't have such formalised ways of making space to learn then we tend not to do it so much.
And, naturally, I have also learned unbelievably large amounts from other people's blogs – a major source of inspiration and a good source of information.
What are the main reasons you have persisted in blogging?
I research social computing systems for learning and use them in my teaching – it's a recursive motivation amplifier for me with positive feedback loops all the way down the line.
How do you think your blogging activity will change in future?
Greater connection and greater contextualisation. Here on the Landing I often bookmark things that I find interesting in a blog-like way as well as blogging. I also Tweet things that catch my eye pretty regularly, post things to the Wire, update things (rarely) at acadmia.edu, blog at Brighton and much more. Pulling it all together is a challenge, not because it is technically hard, but because of my increasing awareness of the need and want to provide different things for different audiences or the same audiences in different contexts. One of the major tools being developed for the Landing is based on this idea – that we have many different social, academic, work and personal contexts that we need to switch between very regularly and constantly. We already have the ability to choose who sees what: the next step is to allow people to select what is seen, how it is seen, according to context.
How has the Landing influenced your blogging?
I am strongly aware when blogging here that I know some of the people who will read it very well, some quite well, some a little, some not at all. I am more aware than usual of the effects it will have on those I do know. Not that this always makes me sensitive or diplomatic! In some cases it actually gives me wicked pleasure to know that I will irritate some people and stir up hornets' nests. In fact, I'm sometimes a bit disappointed when people I expect to have a contrary opinion don't take up the bait. Contrariwise, I am also very aware of how supportive this community can be and both give help and receive it in many ways, academically, practically and emotionally. In both the stirring and the soothing there is an underlying dynamic that makes this very different from other social sites I participate in, and it is down to implicit trust, I think, brought on by explicit membership in this community. This is a shifting community of groups and networks with some shared goals, ideals and purposes and a shared sense of belonging and support, even amongst those we barely know, which binds in a way most social networks of a more general kind fail to manage. It is partly because other social networks are more commonly based on affinity and connection – we choose who we connect with in a very explicit way. That can be true here as well of course, but selected from a subset of the world that is that AU community. We have deliberately set default permissions for posts on this site (logged-in users) that mean we are mostly also connecting with others who we have *not* chosen to connect with but who are part of this closed and trustworthy community. This gives two big gains: the first is that we get diversity of beliefs, opinions, interests and so on that would not happen if we were only deliberately connecting with individuals via a personal network of friends. We would get more diversity if things were entirely public but what we would gain in diversity we would lose in trust (on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog). The second big gain is therefore that we know we are sharing with those we can trust and, in sharing, helping to further increase the trust and connection between people: to build trust we need to expose ourselves and our vulnerabilities, foibles, quirks and weaknesses. I think I have displayed quite a few of those aspects of myself on this site!
I have found it fascinating and delightful to engage in dialogue with people from the AU community that I only slightly know or only know online. It's tangibly binding and connecting. I feel more a part of a rich academic community than I did before, even though we only have a little over a thousand inhabitants so far. If I didn't contribute something to that, I don't think I would feel the same way. Contribution builds connection. And that's another motivation to blog.


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Madrid suspends breast-screening treatment
Source: El Pais - Fri 11th Oct 2013
Deputy regional health chief Patricia Flores confirmed Wednesday that since March 30,000 women in Madrid have not been screened for breast cancer due to a "change in the type of contract" between the authorities and private clinics. Flores stated that those affected would be seen "before the end of the year" and said that the delay should not be considered "alarming" as "these are healthy women who can postpone screening a few months because they are not at risk."
The Socialist opposition immediately called on Popular Party (PP) Health Minister Ana Mato to open an investigation into the "serious health consequences" that could arise from the backlog, describing it as "one of the most serious situations in the public health system in years."
The Madrid regional government is run by the PP, which has seen its plans to privatize six hospitals and other health services run into opposition from the sector's workforce and in the courts. The move to put the hospitals under private management is currently legally suspended.
"There may be women who have been denied an early cancer diagnosis, with the consequences that could entail" said Socialist spokesman José Martínez Olmos.
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EU : Spain may not need extra credit line to exit bailouts
Applying for an EHIC Card as a Spanish Resident
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Spain : Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail
My experience of private healthcare in Spain
Having a Baby in Spain - Part 1 - First Steps


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Q: GCP policy to enforce to use EKM (externally managed key) in KMS Anyone knows how can we enforce the use of EKM (externally managed key) in the GCP KMS?
I would like to avoid using Google-generated keys in the KMS as per our company policy.
Thanks

A: External key manager (EKM) is the key manager used outside of Google Cloud to manage your keys. You can create and manage external keys either via the internet or via a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).  The key resides on the external system, and is never sent to Google.
You can store external keys in the following external key management partner systems:
Supported today:
Fortanix
Futurex
Thales
Virtru
With Cloud EKM, you can use keys that you manage within a supported external key management partner to protect data within Google Cloud. You can protect data at rest in supported CMEK integration services, or by calling the Cloud Key Management Service API directly.
For more information on EKM refer to the documentation google-kms-ekm.
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Below procedure to implement EKM:

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*First, you need to create or use an existing key in a supported external key management partner system. This key has a unique URI or key path.

*Next, you can grant your Google Cloud project access to use the key, in the external key management partner system.

*In your Google Cloud project, you create a Cloud EKM key, using the URI or key path for the externally-managed key.
You can also follow the step-by-step instructions to create a Cloud EKM key accessed via the internet or create a Cloud EKM key accessed via a VPC
EKM while creating VM:
Console -> Compute Engine -> VM Instances -> Create Instance -> Boot disk -> CHANGE -> SHOW ADVANCED CONFIGURATION -> Encryption -> choose the encryption management solution you want to use for the disk.
EKM while creating storage bucket:
Console -> Cloud Storage -> Create Bucket -> Choose how to protect object data -> Enable "customer managed encryption key"
By default "Google-managed key" Encryption type will be used.
The Cloud Console cannot be used to upload an object with a customer-supplied encryption key. Use gsutil or the client libraries instead.
For more information refer to the documentation cloud storage customer supplied encryption keys.
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Currently it is impossible to enforce EKM as an organization policy constraint.
There is a Feature Request on this similar requirement where the product team is working . You can track the issue here .
As a temporary workaround  you can create a log-based alert or metric and filter the audit log with "kmsKeyName" keyword or exclude the keyword for non CMEK logs.
protoPayload.authenticationInfo.principalEmail="SA to filter"
protoPayload.@type="type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.audit.AuditLog"
"kmsKeyName".
Note that the query can be modified based on your use case.

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Rezerwat przyrody Czarne Stawy – leśny rezerwat przyrody, znajdujący się na terenie powiatu polkowickiego, w gminie Chocianów, w północnej części Borów Dolnośląskich.

Obszar chroniony utworzony został Rozporządzeniem Wojewody Dolnośląskiego z dnia 11 kwietnia 2006 r. w sprawie uznania za rezerwat przyrody "Czarne Stawy" w celu zachowania ze względów przyrodniczych, naukowych, dydaktycznych, krajobrazowych i turystycznych fragmentów borów bagiennych oraz roślinności torfowiskowej wraz z całym szeregiem gatunków roślin i zwierząt chronionych, rzadkich i zagrożonych wyginięciem. Powierzchnia rezerwatu została zwiększona w 2015 r. z 124,46 ha do 133,76 ha.

Teren rezerwatu obejmuje bezodpływowe zagłębienie terenu, w którym wytworzyło się otoczone borem sosnowym torfowisko. W przeszłości wydobywano tu torf oraz eksploatowano surowiec drzewny.

Na terenie rezerwatu zidentyfikowano 21 zbiorowisk roślinnych, obejmujących bory mieszane i sosnowe bory bagienne oraz niezalesione mokradła. Rozpoznana flora rezerwatu obejmuje 249 gatunków roślin naczyniowych i 16 gatunków mchów. Występujące tu chronione taksony to rosiczka okrągłolistna, bagno zwyczajne, gruszyczka mniejsza, pływacz drobny, próchniczek błotny, bielistka siwa, rokietnik pospolity, płonnik pospolity, oraz torfowce: ostrolistny, spiczastolistny, kończysty, frędzlowaty, okazały, Russowa  i nastroszony. Stwierdzono tu również 10 gatunków grzybów wielkoowocowych, w tym chronioną lakownicę żółtawą i rzadkiego na niżu borowika ceglastoporego.

Entomofauna rezerwatu obejmuje m.in. 10 gatunków ważek, w tym żagnicę torfową. Rzadkim owadem odnotowanym na tym terenie jest chrząszcz żerdzianka plamista.

Obszar rezerwatu jest miejscem lęgów szeregu rzadkich i chronionych ptaków. Bory otaczające torfowisko zasiedla sóweczka, włochatka i słonka. Z kolei dawne wyrobiska torfu to lęgowisko ptaków wodno-błotnych, m.in. cyraneczki, wodnika, kokoszki, samotnika i żurawia.

Rezerwat leży na gruntach Skarbu Państwa w zarządzie Nadleśnictwa Chocianów. Nadzór sprawuje Regionalny Konserwator Przyrody we Wrocławiu.

Teren rezerwatu został udostępniony do zwiedzania – biegnie tędy dydaktyczna ścieżka przyrodnicza "Uroczysko Czarne Stawy".

Przypisy

Czarne Stawy
Chocianowiec
Chocianów

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Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Adrien de Gerlache, Ernest Shackleton: sail in the wake of these great Antarctic explorers during a 16-day polar expedition cruise organised by PONANT.
Your trip will begin in Ushuaia, the Argentinian capital of Tierra del Fuego which offers breathtaking landscapes.
After crossing the mythical Drake Passage, your ship will make its way to the White Continent, realm of the unexpected. Weather and ice conditions permitting, this extreme environment where nature reigns supreme will reveal to you its most beautiful secrets through numerous discoveries.
You will then discover South Georgia, its impressive glaciers and its black-sand beaches where imposing colonies of king penguins have taken up residence.
Your arrival in the city of Montevideo in Uruguay will mark the end of your trip into the heart of these stunning, faraway lands.
Landscapes: drifting icebergs, ice floe, glaciers and snow-capped mountains in the Antarctic Peninsula; alpine landscapes, lush green plains and suspended glaciers in South Georgia.
Wildlife: humpback whales, Gentoo penguins, Adelie penguins, chinstrap penguins, leopard seals, crabeater seals and Weddell seals in the Antarctic Peninsula; king penguins, elephant seals, fur seals and macaroni penguins in South Georgia.
Embarkation 28/02/2020 from 16H00 to 17H00 . Departure 28/02/2020 at 18H00 .
Disembarkation 14/03/2020 at 07H00 .
For your serenity, PONANT selects a flight and organizes the transfers between the airport and the port. This package is included in your cruise fare.
Meet and greet at the airport (English-speaking assistance).
After lunch at the Arakur Hotel you will have some time at leisure and/ or will be invited to join a walk through the Natural Reserve of the Cerro Alarken. Arakur is a unique starting point for discovering a preserved area which covers 100 hectares (248 acres); this is a sheltered place for flora and fauna species typical to the Tierra del Fuego area (please note that the observation of fauna is not guaranteed). The unique location of the Arakur close to the Mount Alarken makes it as well the perfect setting to enjoy lovely panoramas over the bay.


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New York improviser/Philly native – Michael McFarland and Philly performer Greg Maughan ask their audience about something they love, and then turn a brief interview into the jumping off point for a set that explores love in all it's forms: from brotherly love to patriotism, and from love for fishing to love for stamps.
PERFORMING FRIDAY, JUNE 2ND AT 8:02 P.M.
Mike McFarand and Greg Maughan of Michael Loves Greg
Michael came to New York City by way of Philadelphia where he studied acting at The Actors' Center and was the original creator of Improv Sunday at Fergie's – the first regular monthly longform improv show in the city. He was also Co-Founder and Producer of the first Philadelphia Improv Festival (PHIF). He enjoyed his time in Philadelphia but soon moved to NYC and quickly became a regular member of the Magnet Theater's resident ensembles. He is now a producer of Philly's Duofest. Michael is one hell of a guy, maybe because his personal motto is: "I always have something to say."
Greg Maughan is the founder of Philly Improv Theater (PHIT), a nationally recognized comedy theatre producing & presenting "alternative comedy" (improv, sketch and stand-up) in the metro-Philadelphia area most nights of the year. A semi-regular performer on PHIT's stage, he has been acting and directing improv and sketch comedy since 1999 – first in Detroit (where he appeared briefly in "Improv Survivor", an alternate production at The Second City) and then in Philly. Greg has toured along the east coast and performed in numerous comedy festivals with various improv groups, (including Industrial, Holmes/Maughan, and The Moops), and made guest appearances with many more – incuding guest performances with House Teams at NYC's Magnet Theatre and UCB Theatre Harold Team members. In 2010 he appeared in the hit Philly Fringe show "Punchline!" and performed with Matt Besser, a founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade. As a director, he lead Everything Must Go – an original House Team at PHIT – from its inception in 2008 until the team retired in 2010, and has lent advice and support to list of improv and sketch groups in the city longer than he can remember.
Hometown: New York, NY/Philadelphia, PA
Home Theatre: Magnet Theater/Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)


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Other Investing
How to Find the Turnover Ratio on an Annual Report
By Mark Kennan
How to Calculate Increase in Retained Earnings
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Investors use the information contained in annual reports published by companies to calculate various ratios, including the inventory turnover ratio, to get a better idea of how well the company is doing. The inventory turnover ratio measures how many times each year the company goes through it's inventory. A company's annual report contains its balance statements, which show the various assets, such as inventory. It also contains an income statement, which shows how much money the company made during the year.
Look up the company's sales net sales in the income statement and the starting and ending values of inventory for the company in the balance sheet.
Calculate the average inventory for the company. Add the starting inventory and ending inventory and divide the result by 2. For example, if the company started the year with $1 million in inventory and ended with $1.2 million in inventory, the company has an average inventory of $1.1 million.
Divide the company's sales by the average inventory to calculate the inventory turnover ratio. In this example, if the company has $5.5 million in sales, divide $5.5 million by $1.1 million to find the company turns over its inventory five times per year.
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Mark Kennan is a writer based in the Kansas City area, specializing in personal finance and business topics. He has been writing since 2009 and has been published by "Quicken," "TurboTax," and "The Motley Fool."


In a wok heat oil over medium heat and add Cumin seeds and let it crackle for a minute. Add finely chopped onion and hing. Sauté for another ther minute add crushed garlic and cook for 2 minutes l.
Add all dry spices and roast them for a minute then add chopped tomato and let it cook for another 2-3 minutes.
Add boiled chickpeas and stir well an then add hot sauce sauce, chili garlic sauce and achar masala and mix well. If required add 1/4 cup water. Let it cool until all the masala and sauce coats the chickpeas.
Add salt and squeeze half a lemon and mix well. Sprinkle chopped coriander leave and stir.


NIZHNY NOVGOROD, 15 Aug — RIA Novosti. About 40 tons of hay have been destroyed during the fire which has arisen in the Mari village because of childish prank with fire the press service of GUMChS of Russia of the Republic of Mari El reports. © AP Photo/Franck Desprez has started Major fire near Paris playing with matches ребенокПожар has occurred in the village of Kakshansola of Medvedev's area on Tuesday evening. Near the territory of private enterprise hay has lit up. The message about ignition has come to rescue and fire fighting service from locals. "Before arrival of firefighters villagers make-shifts fought fire, but the flame continued to extend promptly. The firemen who have arrived to the place of a call managed to extinguish the fire. As a result fire has destroyed about 40 tons of hay. Careless handling of fire of children of preschool age who played the field with matches became a cause of the fire. When hay has lit up, they were frightened and have escaped" — it is said in the statement. According to department, since the beginning of year in Mari El 15 fires because of careless handling of fire of children are registered.


Our practice started here in Boulder in 2000. When you come to our office you'll see that it is different than most chiropractic offices. We really focus on biomechanics, using chiropractic and intensive physical therapy to restore mechanics to as normal as possible. Our patients range from professional athletes, people who spend all day on computers, to everyone in between.
Reset proprioceptors deep in the joints, help align scar tissue, and maximize nutrition absorption in the joints.
We utilize proprioceptive rehabilitation that helps maintain and enhance the results of the chiropractic adjustments and traction protocols.
Establish a real life picture of what happens in the spine throughout a full range of motion.
Our chiropractic and physical therapy patients range from professional athletes, people who spend all day on computers, to everyone in between.
If you've had a recent trauma or have been suffering for years we would love the opportunity to help you.
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As you shop for your new home, it is likely that you'll come across a number of very different options. In this increasingly competitive market, the cost to rent a home is often comparable with that required to rent an apartment.
With cost being less of a factor, you have more freedom to base your decision on functional use and personal preference. As you make your choice, rely on your past experiences and make a note of the things you enjoyed or disliked about previous rentals.
Renting a single-family home can be a joy. You don't have to share walls with neighbors, and in most cases, you get to experience the freedom of having a yard. Additionally, with a driveway of your own, parking nightmares are over.
Keep in mind that houses with yards may require the services of a landscaper or gardener. Make sure you ask about any additional fees you should expect. Depending on the season, there may also be certain responsibilities that your landlord places upon you. Who will be responsible for winterizing the home? Discuss these details with your potential landlord before committing to a lease.
Apartments often come with a number of amenities not available in single-family homes. Many apartment complexes offer access to swimming pools, tennis courts, and fitness centers. In addition, living close to your neighbors makes meeting new people less of a chore.
While the extra freedom around the complex is exciting, apartments often carry more strict rules for what you can do inside. Make sure you know what changes you can and cannot make within the unit before signing.
Whether you choose to live in an apartment community or you opt for a single-family home, make sure you love where you end up. Everyone has their own preferences, and individual lifestyles greatly influence one's needs in and around the home.
If you're still undecided and you'd like to see some of our properties, call Keyrenter North Houston. We're here to help you find just what you're looking for. Call us today at (281) 972-5000!


MANY could speculate on why people listen to Taylor Swift? For her fans, it's the emotional connection they draw from the real life inspired lyrics. For the haters? The chance to make fun of her heartbreak. And both are correct….
Swift continues, "People wouldn't listen to my songs if they weren't heartbroken or deeply affected and hurt and jilted and sad and bitter and all those wonderful things that I write songs about."
Gotta hand it to her…she does have a point!
Samuel L. Jackson singing a Taylor Swift song is the best thing ever!


The next DDMAC monthly meeting is on Thursday 14th February 2019 @ Batley RAFA club (agenda will follow shortly).
If you have anything you want to raise or discuss please let me know.
1. Membership Update – 77 members renewed so far for 2019.
2. BMFA Northern area swap meet Saturday 23rd March.
3. BMFA Scale event Saturday 21st April (PANDAS Flying Site).
5. Future meeting Simulator night.
6. Flightfest – BMFA National Model Flying Month (May 2019).
7. DDMAC Summer Fly-In (Sunday 23rd June) & DDMAC Warbird Fly-In (Saturday 21st September).
8. Thursday evening tuition sessions.


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Posted on September 22, 2022 by Wandering Dragon Game & Puzzle Shoppe
HEXplore It: The Domain of Mirza Noctis Bundle (Available Now)
Adventure awaits in the land of Krasvetelia.
HEXplore It is a hero-building adventure board game system. The Domain of Mirza Noctis is our fourth title in the series. It is both a stand-alone game and an expansion to the first three volumes.
Players select their heroes by combining several character options: Role, Aspect, and Race. These combinations drive their strengths, weaknesses, and defines their special abilities.
Krasvetelia. The sun sets on this cold and desolate place. A once beautiful land of craggy mountains, fertile valleys, and deep bottomless chasms, it is now wilted like a rose in winter.
Make your way across this scarred land to Investigate the workings of a terrible Blood Mage, who has spent decades cultivating and collecting the blood of innocents. Move during the Day or at Night and battle a variety of fully illustrated foes. Experience a rich world and reveal what discoveries might lie ahead.
To unravel Mirza Noctis's plans, you must build powerful heroes and face him before it is too late.
Can you stop Mirza Noctis?
Bundle Also Includes:
HEXplore It: Return to Mirza Noctis
Return to the Domain of Mirza Noctis in this epic expansion.
This expansion presents a future timeline for your heroes — what happens when Noctis succeeds?
The dark lord has gathered the blood needed for his ritual and has ascended to godhood. But his goal of ascension wasn't what people thought it would be. His hostility against the commoners of the land has eerily ceased. New, terrible horrors have arrived in the land of Krasvetelia, seeking to tear it asunder. Did he summon them? Or was he preparing for this eventuality all along? Noctis may be the only one strong enough to stand against these horrors. But did he gather enough power, or will he succumb to these titanic forces from another plane of existence? Only your heroes can help shape Krasvetelia's destiny.
The Horrors have arrived.
Tragedy. Calamity. Disaster. Cataclysm. Forge an entirely new journey in the darkening land of Krasvetelia and gather power as quickly as you can to stop the four terrible horrors that have appeared in the world. You'll face each, in a different order each time you play. Your only ally is Noctis himself, but can you keep your sanity, or will you succumb to madness?
What does this Expansion add?
3 new epic heroes to add to your collection
4 variable level Horrors – face them in a different order and experience contrasting effects each time you play
Madness – Your heroes will accumulate Madness, but can you keep your sanity long enough?
Epic Power Ups, Encounters, Investigations, Events, Treasures and more for each of your Core box card decks
Mythic Legendary Items and Allies
New Keepsakes to keep you going after death
A new punchboard for your map that interacts uniquely with the four Horrors
Knight Fall (Available Now)
In Thornmar Abbey, an ancient order of holy knights watches over a sealed portal to the underworld. The knights must protect the elders—ancient sages who sustain the seal. After decades of peace, the seal has weakened and demons are emerging from the rift. The demons seek to battle past the valiant knights and kill enough of the elders to fully break the seal before morning. Imbued with the power of the gods, only these brave knights stand a chance of protecting the elders and stopping an army of monsters from flooding into the world.
Knight Fall is an asymmetrical team game for one to six players. One team controls the knights, who must protect the elders and withstand the demons until dawn. The other team controls the demons, who seek to break the seal to the underworld before morning.
During the game, you choose a unique knight or demon, each with a variety of special powers—such as the Flame Knight's ability to surround his foes in fire, or the Bone Crusher's power to summon skeletal minions. The cards you play from your hand to perform actions can each be used in different ways, and a set of unique location tiles allows you to create the monastery with a different layout every game.
Knight Fall also features a campaign mode for one to two players. In this mode, you read stories while exploring the map of a haunted valley, drawing your path as you travel. Wander through crumbling churches, a sinister forest, and a dark mountain to stop the demons before the final battle at Thornmar Abbey. You must do whatever you can to keep your Knights alive; the death of each knight means one fewer hero to combat the invading demons in the final battle!
Etherfields Sundrop Bundle (Available Now!)
Etherfields is a narrative, cooperative game for 1 – 4 (5 with the 5th player expansion). A series of unique Dreams await to be discovered through tense exploration and tactical encounters.
Learn about the Dreamers, their forgotten past, and their desperate mission. Uncover the surreal, sprawling dreamscapes. Just don't be surprised when—just like dreams often do—they become a little disturbing… Prepare to be challenged by escape-room like riddles. Spot a clue in the image. See a hidden link between several pieces of information. Use your instinct as much as your logic.
In the beginning, you'll explore the Dreamworld, trying to find out what this is all about and who you are – and you are there for a specific reason, but, at first, you can't remember too much. You'll have to restore your memories from scattered pieces.
The rules are pretty straightforward at the beginning, but they will grow more and more complex during the campaign. New rules open new possibilities and, sometimes, may turn everything upside down.
Deckbuilding in Etherfields applies to almost every deck in the game, not only the players' ones. If you want to know more, enter the Dreamworld. It may be dark here and there, but it certainly isn't gray. Then, look around and ask yourself: what if we all live in a vast, shared dream?
Sundrop Bundle Includes:
Core Game (Sundrop)
Etherfields: Stretch Goals – Harpy & She-Wolf Campaigns (Sundrop)
Sphinx campaign (Sundrop)
Funeral Witch Campaign (Sundrop)
5th Player Expansion (Sundrop)
Creatures of Etherfields (Sundrop)
Improved Rulebook and Optimal Game Supplements
Foam Brain Dice: Mystery Loot – Trick or Treat 2 Oversized Metal Die & Enamel Pin (Available Now!)
Back by popular demand, we our rolling out a new limited set of the Best-Selling, Trick or Treat Mystery Loots!!
Each Mystery Loot will contain one random Metal D20 and one Enamel Pin:
Top-Selling, Spooky Metal D20's: Limited supply of spooky dice with Beatle, Boo!, Eyeball, Vampire Teeth, Radioactive Waste, or Living Candy Corn designs!
Spooky-Themed Enamel Pins: A classic monster dressed in a Halloween costume… Our unique pins this year feature merfolk, giants, demons and more, all dressed up and ready to trick-or-treat!
D&D 5E: Boricubos Latin American Monsters & Adventures RPG (Available Now!)
Islands of Adventure! Explore the incredible archipelago of Boricubos, a land rooted in the myths and legends of the Taino and Arawak peoples of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. This amazing campaign setting includes vividly detailed cultures with seven sensational playable races, from the anabagua flower-folk to the volcanic wolakan, the mercenary iguaca parrotfolk, the hurakan living storm scions, and more! Plus, you'll find nearly 40 new archetypes and class options for every 5E character class, alongside dozens of new spells, weapons and armor, feats, magic items, and so much more, including the all-new shaman class, a divine spirit-master and cousin to the warlock who binds the spirits of nature and the incarnation of ancestors to wield mystic power, with dozens of spirit bindings and boons to make each shaman unique! Plus, get adventure hooks, culture and history, and three introductory adventures to help your heroes find their place in this island paradise: Prophet of Perdition, Ancient Bones, and Six Days Til Sacrifice!
In addition, you'll find over 120 5th Edition creatures from Central and South America and the Caribbean, from ahuizotl to zuvembie! You'll find divine messengers and protectors like the magui and xiuh couatl alongside sinister fiends like the soucouyant and xipe totec the Flayed Lord, living fey like the curupira and encantado alongside deathless terrors like the llorona and tzitzimitl, living engines of destruction like the lusca and chupacabra and unliving constructs like the cuauhxicalli and xolo guardian. Guardians of the wild like the tunche and madremonte stand beside fantastic versions of real-world creatures like the anaconda, giant iguana, black caiman, jaguar, and giant mantis shrimp! These creatures are ideal for running a campaign inspired by the Americas or as exciting new creatures your players may have never seen before! This incredible 5E monster book has been developed with a creative team of nearly 20 Latin American authors and artists from the folklore of Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Cuba, and more in this beautifully illustrated 264-page deluxe hardcover to Make Your Game Legendary!
Oz RPG (Available Now!)
Adventure is just down the Yellow Brick Road… The award-winning author and illustrator of Neverland returns with another beautiful RPG setting book, in OZ: A Fantasy Role-Playing Game.
While many have traveled with Dorothy Gale to the world of OZ, there is so much more to explore! But know this: there is more to the land and its inhabitants than the rumors might suggest. Appearances can be deceiving and like any good metal smith will tell you, the only way to tell a gold bar from a yellow brick is to hit it with a hammer.
So begins Andrew Kolb's OZ: A Fantasy Role-Playing Game. Unlike its predecessor, Neverland, OZ uses an urban setting pointcrawl instead of a hexcrawl, full of secrets to discover via underground trains and a monorail that loops around all four districts of OZ. With different neighborhoods to explore, factions to join, and questions to ask (what happened to The Slippers, anyway?) players can escape to the Emerald City for hours on end.
D&D 5E: Book of Traps, Puzzles and Dungeons (Available Now!)
The Game Master's Book of Traps, Puzzles and Dungeons provides GMs with endless options for populating their adventures with challenging riddles, puzzles, spiked pits, Rube Goldberg-style deathtraps and much more – everything they need to push player character to their limit and bring new levels of excitement (and anxiety) to their game play.
Star Trek Ascendancy: Breen Confederacy (Available Now!)
The Breen Confederacy
Little is known about the secretive Breen, not their appearance, and not even whether they are a single species or several species working together. Intensely territorial, the Breen annihilated the Klingon fleet sent to conquer them, leaving the Klingons no wiser as to who or even what they were facing. As the Romulans say, "Never turn your back on a Breen."
This set includes everything you need to add the Breen to your games of Star Trek: Ascendancy!
Star Trek Ascendancy: The Dominion War (Available Now!)
Changelings known as the Founders established the Dominion in Gamma Quadrant millenia ago. Through their Vorta commanders and Jem'Hadar super soldiers, the Founders rule as gods, bringing order to the galaxy. The discovery of the Bajoran Wormhole brought this ancient civilization onto conflict with the more youthful civilizations of the Alpha Quadrant.
Expansion to the popular Star Trek: Ascendancy game, The Dominion War Variant adds the Dominion as a playable civilisation, the Bajoran Wormhole leading to he Gama Quadrant as a new area to explore and a Dominion war variant that changes the playing field by dividing the civilizations into two rival alliances with players striving to see their Alliance dominate the opposing Alliance.
The expansion contains everything you need to add the Dominion, and another player to your games of Star Trek Ascendancy. Discover the Gamma Quadrant via the Bajoran-Idran Wormhole Systems, encounter new Exploration Cards, plus more Space Lanes and Resource Nodes!
This set includes everything you need to add the Dominion and Gamma Quadrant to your games of Star Trek: Ascendancy and to play the Dominion War variant.
Cold Case: Murder With Interest (Available Now!)
The Murder of Dave Connelly
In 2003, Dave Connelly, an employee of a local bank in Tolmahoy, Ireland, attended an office party in celebration of his 25th birthday. Little did he know, it would be his last. Minutes after the party ended, both Dave and his bank manager, Clare, dropped dead – victims of poison! Decades later, the identity of their killer remains a mystery, as police were never able to determine how they were poisoned. In Cold Case: Murder with Interest, YOU investigate the deaths of Dave Connelly and Clare O'Callaghan and attempt to finally solve the crime.
Immerse Yourself in a Cold Case Mystery
In the Cold Case series, you have been summoned to investigate the unsolved cases of victims murdered decades ago, piecing together the details that the police could never find. Inside the box, you will find realistic materials pertaining to the crime, and a complex story containing everything you need to crack the case. Follow the clues and submit your answers online to finally bring the killers to justice.
Great for a small group of friends or a single-player experience, Cold Case integrates puzzle-solving and crime fiction into an immersive investigative experience. The police never identified the murderer.
HEXplore It: The Valley of the Dead King – Klik's Madness Campaign Book (Available Now!)
Klik's Madness is our first Campaign Mode written for the HEXplore It system.
This choose-your-own-path, board game/novel hybrid, is an ambitious product whose story takes place in the Runecrest Valley, before the Dead King arrives. Play through the Valley of the Dead King (Volume I) in an entirely new way and experience the unfolding of a complex and epic story. Your heroes will be pulled into the narrative and will drive how the story unfolds based on the decisions and actions you make.
Welcome back to the Runecrest Valley.
Players build their heroes in largely the same way they would during a standard game of the Valley of the Dead King. You'll use the same heroes throughout your entire adventure.
At the beginning of each chapter, you will find a map setup for that chapter and a series of Triggered Events, Chapter Statuses, and Campaign Items available to gain or unlock during play. After you set up your map and assemble your components, you'll read an opening narrative that sets the tone for your journey and propels you headfirst into your adventure. As you interact with more content in the game world, you'll experience varied and unique Chapter Passages that narrate your journey and provide you with choices on how to proceed. These choices will largely affect the course of your game during play.
Triggered Events (TE)
Triggered Events are moments where through the course of gameplay (landing on a special location, rolling especially well or poorly on a Stat Test, etc), you have triggered a narrative event. They are identified at the beginning of each chapter, based on the game phase in which they occur. Each chapter has its own list of TEs to be aware of and not all are related to your chapter objective. It is not expected for you to encounter all TEs in a single play-through. When a trigger occurs, the Triggered Event will specify which Chapter Passage to read.
Chapter Passages (CP)
Chapter Passages are numbered narrative moments that display the results of the decisions made during a Triggered Event. The Chapter Passages section of each chapter contains these moments, organized in a random environment for you to discover and read when instructed to do so. You will not know the outcome of your decisions until you make them. You will only know if a decision will take time to complete or not.
Heroic Moments
Within the confines of the Campaign's story, some heroes are capable of performing amazing feats and turning the tide of the narrative in ways that other heroes cannot. For example, heroes of the Healer Role Type may have an opportunity to save a dying NPC, or an ogre may be able to perform a feat of strength. These opportunities are called Heroic Moments. The text of a TE or CP will indicate when a Heroic Moment is possible, which Roles, Role Types, Races, or Aspects can take part, and what your special ability or choice will be.
Prequel: Trouble at the Gates
When a desperate man stumbles into your secluded shrine begging for someone to help save his kidnapped family, you are there to answer the call. Explore the nuances of the HEXplore It Campaign Mode system and experience a hint of the dangers awaiting in the full adventure.
Chapter 1: A Threat in Dragon's Port
A group of suspiciously organized goblins have stolen three priceless treasures from the Baron of Dragon's Port. Their retrieval will uncover a dark plot that threatens to envelop all of Runecrest Valley.
Chapter 2: Into the Wildlands
Dragon's Port was only the beginning. More allies and information are needed to face the coming goblin scourge, and that means braving a treacherous forest with deadly new occupants.
Chapter 3: Klik's Clutches
Following his latest assault, the self-proclaimed ruler of the goblins seeks even more power. Old allies and new will be needed to face this unique threat, but will it be enough?
Chapter 4: Descent into Madness
Klik's plans have boiled over with disastrous results. Now is the time to take a final stand and bring the fight to the goblins before the entire Valley falls to Klik's madness!
NPC Arcs
You'll meet various allies as your adventure unfolds. Each can help you in various ways. These optional side-quests will allow you to help them back in return.
What is required to play Klik's Madness?
Aside from this campaign book, you'll need The Valley of the Dead King Core box. The Valley of the Dead King Expansion and Living Card deck may also be used, but are not required to play. We present alternate options in the book wherever this optional material is referenced.
Klik's Madness is a hardcover book, sized approximately 500 pages
It is a story-driven expansion for Volume I: The Valley of the Dead King
This product features full-color printing, sewn-in binding, 3 ribbons (purple, teal, and gray/brown), and is printed on 128gsm premium paper
Create heroes and experience a choose-your-own path story through 4 consecutive chapters of content. A 5th optional chapter contains dozens of Non-Player Character dialog arcs
Each chapter takes roughly 2-5 hours to complete and ranges approximately 40k to 90k words (for context, most novels are between 60k and 100k words)
You will only experience a fraction of the content during each chapter, which means your games can unfold differently each time you play
Gain epic gear, unique campaign-only equipment and statuses, and power level your heroes throughout the entire length of the story
Statuses and campaign items you gain in one chapter will affect the story in completely different and unforeseeable ways in future chapters
Ambitious storytellers can use the framework we've introduced here to build their own similar stories in the HEXplore It gaming world
If you do not enjoy reading, this product may not be for you! This is a narrative experience you'll unravel within the framework of the HEXplore It gaming system.
Ticket To Ride: Poland (Available Now!)
From the Baltic Sea to the Tatra Mountains, Poland offers wide open vistas just waiting to be discovered. Take in the fresh sea breeze on the Gulf of Gdansk, or maybe you prefer the charming mountain trails around Zakopane! Ticket to Ride: Poland takes you on a unique journey into a rich past as you play the role of a railway magnate from the 1950s.
In Ticket to Ride: Poland, you will have to gain a monopoly over the Polish public transport, not only by claiming routes between cities, but also by connecting countries with each other. But do not waste time: the sooner you manage to do so, the higher the reward. This new Map Collection is the perfect addition to spice-up a Ticket to Ride game night.
Ticket To Ride: San Francisco (Available Now!)
Enjoy a nice walk along the Embarcadero and hop on an old cable car for a ride toward Fisherman's Wharf. Soon, the Golden Gate Bridge will rise in front of you… Welcome to the City by the Bay! Continuing the successful series of the City games, Ticket to Ride San Francisco embarks players in a fun and fast visit of one the world most popular city.
Virtù (Available Now!)
It's a time of upheaval, when the Middle Ages end and modernity is born…. For those in the government, the situation is ripe for action. Your city must maintain its standing, and you, as its prince, must make this happen. Virtù models the art of governing, using an original mechanism that then deploys from your player board. Your tactical options are laid out in the form of a wheel of cards, which you can evolve according to your objectives. Send troops or assign agents, and the villages will change hands. But other strategic dimensions must be considered: Artists, merchants, or diplomats could also work to increase your prestige…. Decide and act with just the right amount of ingenuity and audacity, and you will become the Master of Italy!
My Junior RPG (Available Now!)
My Junior Role Playing Game is an introduction to tabletop top roleplaying games for kids 8 years and older. Streamlining the tried-and-true roll to resolve gameplay of RPGs, players will work together as they play through a light RPG adventure, rolling dice to take actions and check success and collecting clues to unravel the story's mystery.
Players will play as Akir, Liu, Jo' and Lucas, four friends at Summer camp. They hear about a mysterious haunted castle and decide to go explore it and solve the mystery surrounding the spooky location and its ghostly inhabitants.
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Psoriasis is an inflammatory skin condition. It causes flaky and red skin patches to develop on the skin. Many people who suffer from psoriasis are embarrassed because of their condition. In fact, six out of 10 psoriasis sufferers have reported that this condition interferes with their daily life. Fortunately, this condition can be managed with natural remedies.
What's Your Joint Pain Trying to Tell You?
As our bodies age, one area that's extremely vulnerable to pain and sensitivity are our joints. Pain is most common in flexible joints that bear a lot of weight. While it can be tempting to run to the doctor every time some joint twinges, it's important to understand what different types of pain are common, and what the different types of pain are trying to tell you.
Parkinson's disease is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that primarily affects our motor system, the parts of our central nervous system that help us to move freely and interact with our surroundings. People are typically diagnosed with Parkinson's disease around 60 years of age, and the life expectancy after a diagnosis is typically seven to 14 years.
When you're in the middle of an eczema breakout, the most frustrating part is not knowing the reason the breakout occurred. While you probably know that you need to avoid certain allergy triggers that cause your eczema to worsen, there are four things that can lead to an eczema outbreak that you might not expect. By learning to avoid these triggers, you can help clear up your eczema and keep your skin clearer.


"The possibility of strong and coherent linkages between tax justice and human rights is starting to emerge. The International Bar Association has recently published an important report on the subject, there was a conference about it in Johannesburg last week (at which I was a speaker), and John Christensen's message at yesterday's "Tax Justice - are you serious?" event was emphatically that an important next step for tax justice campaigners is to forge links with the human rights community."
It seems to me that a rights-based analysis of tax abuse brings dangers as well as opportunities. . . . "
Now read on. We will be saying a lot more about this large subject quite soon.
To be honest, his whole blog is one to watch.
Update 2014: for more information on tax justice and human rights, see here.


This forum is a place to ask questions and share ideas about campus software.
XCBC and OpenHPC cluster compatible tools that monitor both cluster health and job statistics.
Discussion and documentation for XCBC, a standard set of packages designed to streamline the process of configuring high-performance, parallel computing clusters that are comparable to (and compatible with) XSEDE digital services.
Software toolkit to expand the functionality of your cluster in ways that mimic the setup on an XSEDE cluster.